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The Good Soldier Schweik
Der brave Soldat Schwejk
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Modern German DVD Cover
Country Error creating thumbnail: File missing West Germany
Directed by Axel von Ambesser
Release Date September 22, 19
Language German
Studio Central Cinema Company Film (CCC)
Distributor Gloria
Main Cast
Character Actor
Josef Schwejk Heinz Rühmann
Oberleutnant Lukasch Ernst Stankovski
Woditschka Franz Muxeneder
Kathi Wendler Ursula von Borsody
Gretl Senta Berger


The Good Soldier Schweik is a 1960 German film adaptation of the 1960 novel "The Good Soldier Švejk" by Jaroslav Hašek, directed by Axel von Ambesser and starring Heinz Rühmann in the title role. Schwejk, a Bohemian dog dealer, is living peacefully and contentedly in Prague when World War I breaks out. An arrest for high treason leads directly to his soldiering, which he survives with the luck of the supposedly simple-minded. He is transferred to the front with First Lieutenant Lukasch, and here, too, his mischievous naiveté will repeatedly get him into trouble and out of it at the same time.


The following weapons were used in the film The Good Soldier Schweik (Der brave Soldat Schwejk):


Steyr Mannlicher M1895/30

The Steyr Mannlicher M1895 carbine or short rifle is used by Austro-Hungarian soldiers including Josef Schwejk (Heinz Rühmann). It is clearly a post-WWI M1930 Conversion with a modified front sight. Some Russian soldiers appear also to be armed with Steyr carbines instead of the accurate Mosin Nagant M1891.

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Steyr M1895 Short Rifle (M1930 Conversion) - 8x56R
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A Gendarm (Viktor Braun) encounters Schwejk on his way to his regiment.
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The regiment marches to the frontline.
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The exhausted Schwejk uses his rifle as a walking aid.
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Feldwebel Wannek (Wolf Harnisch) and his squad captures Schwejk.
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A firing squad aims his rifle at Schwejk which shows the stacking pins.
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Note the hooded front sights.

Steyr M1912

Wachtmeister Flanderka (Hugo Gottschlich) can briefly be seen wielding a Steyr M1912 pistol.

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Steyr-Hahn M1912 (1913 mfg) - 9x23mm Steyr
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The Wachtmeister holds his pistol on the left.
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He brandishes the pistol.

Newsreels

1914

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Horse drawnd 8cm Feldkanone M 05 field guns.
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Austro-Hungarian soldiers with Steyr Mannlicher M1895 rifles.

1915

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French soldiers marching with Lebel 1886 rifles.
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Imperial Russian soldiers in a parade with Mosin Nagant M1891 rifles.
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A column of British soldiers armed with Lee-Enfield No.1 Mk.III rifles.

1916

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An Ehrhardt E-V/4 armored car with equipped Maxim MG08s.
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Soldiers during a pre war maneuver with Maxim guns.